YONKERS - More housing is proposed downtown and South Broadway could get its first hotel.

Bharat Gandhi of Broadway Hospitality wants to convert a light-industrial building at 189 S. Broadway into a 54-room hotel. The building is currently used by an auto-repair business.

Broadway Hospitality's proposal is to add two levels to the building and create 42 indoor and outdoor parking spaces. Gandhi also operates the Yonkers Gateway Motel at 300 Yonkers Ave.

If approved, the hotel would employ about 10 to 15 people and the yearlong construction is expected to begin in December.

The Yonkers Planning Board is expected to begin its review of Broadway Hospitality's proposal at its Wednesday night meeting in City Hall.

Also on the planning board's agenda is a new proposal for downtown apartments at 2 Manor House Square and 41 N. Broadway, both of which are four-story buildings that are currently empty and rundown. The building at 41 N. Broadway is known to many people because the south side of it has a mural by Eelco Van den Berg facing the Mill Street Courtyard.

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The buildings at 2 Manor House Square and 41 N. Broadway on April 10, 2018.(Photo: Ernie Garcia/The Journal News)

Manor House AP, LLC of New York City proposes to add a level to the tops of both buildings and convert them into 34 live-work apartments consisting of 14 studios, 18 one-bedrooms, one two-bedroom and one three-bedroom. The two buildings were originally used as offices and stores.

The ground floor of the two buildings would be renovated for two retail spaces, one facing N. Broadway and the other facing Manor House Square. The entrance lobby to the conjoined buildings would be on Manor House Square.

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An artist rendering of the proposed renovation of 2 Manor House Square in Yonkers.(Photo: Ernie Garcia/The Journal News)

According to Manor House AP's application, the city's zoning rules do not require the two buildings to provide off-street parking because they are located near Metro-North's Yonkers Station.

If the housing proposal is approved, construction is anticipated to begin in December for a September 2019 completion.